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Noah Piugattuk was a skilled storyteller. He also was patient with the youth and took the time to understand the younger generation.

When the Governor General of Canada visited Igloolik, the Drama Club was supposed to perform a play for him. Unfortunately, he had to leave before their play started, so he invited them to Ottawa for a visit.

 Zacharias Kunuk recalls learning English at school.

After enduring two years of their children being taken away and living in town, Zacharias Kunuk’s parents finally move to town to be closer to their kids.

Zacharias and his siblings are brought to town to be baptized.

In 1992, Zacharias Kunuk wanted to know more about Ayaya songs. He found out that the songs are riddles, because in Inuit culture they cannot say elder's names or direct animal names. Instead of saying "polar bear", they would say "the big white animal".

Noah Piugattuk started bringing back drum dancing and storytelling in his last years.
He said that, unlike what the church was teaching them, not everything was only good or only bad, and Inuit traditions could not be just bad.

Jenny Vestey Vernon is a researcher who lived in Igloolik in the late 1960's and studied Inuit settlment patterns. She notes that women did not have easy lives, and many of them needed medical attention. When they got older, a lot of them moved to town to be nearer the Nursing Station.

People would call the phone ‘Radio Latin America’, because the woman running it had a strong Spanish accent.

A planner comes and makes a plan of Igloolik like a Southern town. Then he moved some of the houses which had been built in a chaotic manner, and moved them onto the streets he had drawn.